Ok so you know

Since the 18th of last month I have had a bad month around here from the last posting that I made. Not includeing a death with it all. The week of january 18th I was not even home all week except one day and I supposadly get pictures of me and someone that I was not even involved with and diden't want to be involved with at all. The thing that was here wasen't worth my time nor marage nor me being cheaper than snot over at all after the slave and maid treatment that I got for takeing the lump on the sofa in. Now I have other emails from the "Jolted ex girlfriend" that I can share with you all. Now my Husband found out that I dident get all of the dishes that the lump rinsed off and said that they were clean also with cold water. If the ex wants the bump on the sofa go for it I don't need the crap from any man on earth after my ex husband at all. My Husband now knows that I will nail him if need be. And I just don't care. When I can say that I am running the household by myself around here and my now Husband is not here but on the weekends Gee I wander who runs the place nobody but me. So I go as cheap as I can when my husband is gone and tough. He doesen't say much when I eat soup during the week and other things also. He is not here to say what I do during the week around here at all. I will be cheap/frugal with my money eather way that I go around here. When I can save money I will around here nomatter what other folks say about it all. Some people I just do not like and would rather stay away from them. When I get told I do this in Porter Rico and my bill is maybe 50 dollars a month well guess what you are in NY State where the greedy bastards live. When my power bill is 150 a month if I don't watch what I so around here. So I got my way becuase the lump wasen't paying a red hot cent into the household nor chipping in at all. His ex wants him that bad have fun enjoy I don't want him at all. Men with short hair never had my intrest at all give me a man with Long Hair and less body Hair and I am a happy camper. At this point Mark(The Undertaker) could stand totally buck naked in front of me and I could turn him down colder than the weather outside in NY State at this point. Now I have always been the person who has asked can you boil what you just got and eat it. I do not spend at all. One of the things that I have got use to around here at all times. I will miss my Electrition for Wrestle Mania this year. Becuase one of us always ordered it, and the bloodier the better as the both of us put it made our days. I am sorry when someone blows out thier knees more than what I have in life for a job God Bless the folks. The Electrition and I always had an agreement on things in life we diden't have a pleasent job and blew out body parts quicker than snot if we were not carefull or broke bones. I broke the bones and he blew out disks in his neck and back with our jobs. No matter how mad we got at each other all we had to do was pick up the phone and bam we were there for each other nomatter what was going on or down in our lives. I really miss him eather way and still Loved the Man like a brother. As I told his Mom and "Dad" I will miss him and Thank You for letting me get the chance to know your son.

I got the Hippy off

I got the Hippy off and being locked out of the can for about 3 min here and got back in thank goodness I had keys within a couple of miles from here. I started cleaning after I got back in also while I was at it all. If I go with my instincts I know some folks diden't go out of town like I have heard also. Becuase I have ran into people at places while I have been out and went from there. Pluss there were a few clues as to why I say this also besides others telling me so. Well I do not mind a dark alley after the E Mails that were sent to me and I saved everyone and copied them also. Here I have not said a word to someone and I get accussed of something that I was not here for at all. I am still livid after over a month. When the Hippy and I left yesterday for a couple of places and I pretty much caught the person lieing about me. There are no pic's to back up someones toush at all.

In a message dated 1/21/2010 8:26:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, lionessa0000@yahoo.com writes:
I have some nice photos of yu two. Thanks for bring such a good friend Sarah. You should have seen your face in Walmart. Like marge said. That was priceless!

Now when You get an Email like this and the name is miss spelled altogeather what would you think. And this is who I got the bird off who would have not made it another week in her house off of at all. Now I threw her ex-boyfriend out also while I was at it all about 3 weeks ago. I really don't care about this supposad womans friends and thier thoughts at all. If I was at all concerned at all I would be a total wreck of what everyone thought of me. Since I could care less about what folks think of me it doesen't bother me any. I get repetitive and say so. That is how I have learned in what I do. Yes I can teach folks how to be cheap or frugal eather way. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Not moveing fast today

Well I got the laundery folded up at least now to get other things done around here. The Hippy hasen't left niether as of yet. After he leaves today I will start in the rest of the place. It will not take long to do all that I have to do at all except for the dishes. After working in the hotels for about 5 seasons it does help with changeing sheets and cleaning the bathroom up. Anyway now for to sit here and wait and go from there for cleaning up the place and to start turning off stuff so I can get more work done around here. It amazes me that with everything turned off in how much I can get done around here. Pluss I am saveing money also with that end of the power. I need more gas than the eletric anyway becuase of the hot water. I have noticed that with the gas water tank the power is cheaper. I also have a gas oven untill I start useing the convection oven. I use it during the hollidays during the winter months and more in the summer since it doesen't heat up the whole place while I am cooking dinners. With the winter months I do not mind useing the dryer at all. Along with useing the oven to help heat the can. Here in April I will start hanging out laundery once again. I can't wait for that at all around here. I will say that it helps on the power bill at all times around here when I start hanging out the laundery. Anyway the fun will begin in about a month if not less. Pluss the windows will be open to air out the can and Olliver can hear the other birds outside. Gee you can't tell that I am waiting for spring can you?????? Pluss I can wash all the sheets and blankets that are up on the windows also and freshin up the place while I am at it all. Now for when it gets to flipping hot out I have the sheets and blankets up to block the windows again and make it cooler in here for the A/C. Pluss there's some fans going during the summer months. I also start breaking out the crock pot more in the summer months while I am at it all. There are several ways of saveing money thru out the year that it is hard to believe. Fans are a start in the summer months. Most of the window fans I get in the fall when they are on big sale around here. Ok the box is beat to snot and you wander should I or shoulden't I. Well a 40 dollar fan for about 7 dollars where are you going wrong at when it still works at the end of the year even when the box is beat to snot. I have almost every window with a fan around here during the summer months with out the A/C going. Now in the mornings I have the shade fans pointing in and the sunny side pointing out to get the cross breases going thru.

Long day

After I get the laundery folded I get to take the Hippy to work/up to the truck. After I get him out of here I get to clean for the rest of the day. It will not bother me to much since I get to run out to Collins tomarrow morning. I will be doing the house work on the cheap around here I hope. Well I won't run out of anything at all at this point in time. What I did was pick some of the stuff up last month when it was on sale over at the dollar store. That is what gets to some folks here in the trailer park about me. Is that I will pick up alot of things for my can and stock up that way. One person told me last year that she coulden't afford shampoo anymore and I looked at her shook my head and walked away. The person who told me that was in a perfect spot to start picking up cans out of her yard also. With all the cans that are thrown out becuase of the kids I have got at least 10 dollars out of my yard and several vacant lots around me. Most folks here in the park will put the cans and bottles in the bins for the recycling. Acouple of the kids and I raided the bins one morning and split all the nickles. Sometimes I have to laugh about it around here. When I can get at least 2 dollars if I don't look and more than 5 dollars if I go walking around looking. And for someone to say that they are broke and then not take the bottles and cans back in for the nickle makes me wanna shake my head. Now yesterday I had alittle over 33 dollars that I took in. Yes I let them build up and then take in at least 5 bags at a time for the household ones. Now after that being said I had another dime that someone handed me also in cans. That is going for my stove fund. Now that doesent include the ones still in the van that I have picked up along the way also. Sometimes I do just let the cans build up and just wait untill I really need them for whatever for the can. It also goes along of being cheap also around here. Lastnight when I walked out of 2 stores for under 50 dollars I knew I was doing good. With me since I do try to keep stocked up around here so I know I have alot of stuff on hand for the place. Then this way I don't have to worry for awhile. Pluss I try to get things on sale with a coupon and have stock on hand and when it goes off sale I am not stuck paying full price for nothing if I run out of an item. That is what folks don't see about my place at all. Some figure that I will go out and just spend money around here when I don't. With the animals here in my place I do that on the cheap also. The cat is not as picky as the dog and bird are. Even then I pick things up on sale and have some things back for the Bird, cat, and dog around here. I learned early. Anyway at least there's enough to do to keep my busy around here today with cleaning. As I have said before I get 15 min of work in and sit for 15 min. SO I get to piddle around the can and get it clean also. I get more done this way while I am at it all. Some days I do not get much done at all and that is fine also. I am not one of these neat freeks at all. I have what is called clean clutter in my place. To where my place is clean but, cluttered at the same time. I have 700 square feet and not enough room for all that I have. Alot of it I have become creative on getting stuff out of the way. I have an old T.V. stand in my kitchen that I use for some appliances and other things. There are also 2 white cabnets for flour and other things that are overload for the rest of the kitchen. And the extra cleaners also. Ok folks have fun and play harder.

Well I got some more done today

I took the cans in and 33 dollars later for them. That was the cans from the household. I had to laugh about it tonight. Pluss I got the van back early also. Arm and Leg but thats ok at least the worst is fixed and now to get the other parts of it within a couple of months. Well the Hippy talked me into going to Walmart and Ollies. Niether place was bad to get out of. Some odds and ends that were needed. Now for this up coming month it will be somewhat bad becuase I dident totally stock up for this month at all. In Febuary it is always bad becuase you barely make the bills and get a bit of food to last you thru. I will have the stack of coupons with me for alot of the places that I will be going into and driveing folks nuts behind me. Untill they see the totall after I get done of course. That is the best part of the shopping trip. Pluss I was explaining to the young man in what I do when I go for the big trip of shopping. He asked if I went out to several stores and I said yes and with a fist full of coupons also. I did save alot today in all that I got without the coupons. For a 44 dollar bill it would have been 90 dollars at the regular store. And most of the stuff I picked up were brand names. This is why I say shop around. Another costomer and the Hippy were talking about the prices and you have to watch them in all the stores. Now for the Paula Deen cook wear over at Ollies is about half the price of the web site and other stores. I diden't get anything of the cook wear at all. I did get alot of food items while I was there. Like big bottles of Jack Danialls bbq sauce for really cheap. And the store changes sometimes daily and sometimes weekly. It is like a Big Lots and a Dollar store in one but messy its one of the stores you have to dig in it to see what you can get. Anyway most of the laundery is done around here of course. Now there are some bedding that needs to be done and that can wait untill tomarrow or next week. I will say that not everything gets done in my place at one time. Also I refuse to keep a perfect household. When my body says no more guess what I have to stop and sit down for awhile. I will work for 15 min and sit for 15. I can get more done that way. The Hippy laughs at me all the time for it an he knows what I do to make it during the week around here. I know that the Hippy doesen't hollar to much at me now becuase I have found a system that works and he doesen't mind what I get done as long as the main balk of the work gets done. Pluss not only that I get done what I get done and some days it is all I can do to get out of bed to say the least about me. When I go to the do the grocery shopping it gets worse around here with me it wears me out. Then I get to break down meat to meal portions to the can. It works for us around here. ok folks have fun and play hard.

Still working on

Well I am working on the laundery and a few other things here in the place. What is bad is that it has seemed that there is more laundery than I thought there was around here. There are about 5 loads around here instead of the 8 that I am use to in the past 2 months if not longer around here. Yes that is and was per week. Pluss doing full loads of dishes and other cleaning in the place. Now you know why I was fed up with the person that was here. I was the maid and the slave at the same time. Most of the stuff now is easy to get thru around here without the lump under my feet and up someplace also. Now with the laundery I am useing an eighth of and eighth of a cap of laundery deturgant. I have enough suds to make the laundery clean. Pluss the half of the dryer sheet. It makes laundery almost affordable around here. With the new washer my water bill has went down by about 40 dollars every 2 months if not more. Pluss the power bill went down along with the water bill becuase I have an extended spin on the washer. Well when I got the washer it was about 80 dollars more for the High Efficiancy one. Pluss it was about a cubic foot bigger than the one with a full adjatater in it. Also with the old Aldi Tandel soap it was so strong that I used less anyway. After they switched it it became watery. So I will be switching back over to eather Purex or another deturgant. Now I haven't tried the Green Works deturgant yet only becuase I have 3 other bottles that are around not includeing what is left of the bottle that I am useing. Well my whole thing is streach out what you can when you can. What happends is you will find that after you start streaching stuff out you will find more money in the wallet and less that you spend. Normally I try to keep stocked up enough in the can to where when I do not have a car for awhile it doesen't totally bother me. Becuase, I have everything here on hand. Or if a travle band goes up I am not stuck not haveing something. Some folks have teased me about it all untill they realized when they had moved about an hour from a store then they realized that I was in the right on stocking up eather way. As I have said before Walmart is about 3 min on foot from eather door that I go out of. I knew I was in trouble when they opended up also. My one Aunt thought it was funny. Then again she also realized that I do not have to travel but 20 min in the van to get there also. With the stop lights and other traffic out there. Now at times yes I do walk to the stores around here. It makes it easier on me at times out of the year. Summer times and after the turkey day I walk becuase, the parking lots are so full that why bother to drive to some places. My Aunt that I stayed with for about 2 weeks last year was suprized that I was doing alot of things really cheaply and my habbits diden't change from my place to hers and back again. I had to laugh becuase some of us landed at the dollar store right down the street from her. Pluss in the state of PA there are no taxes on some items. I was in my glory on that part for some things. Also where I was at the sales tax is 6% still on things. When you are use to double the tax on things you tend to shop more in other states than where you are at. Now I do travel to other states when I can and I have places along the way that I can stop at also and visit. I have drove out to Punxey Pa and back in the same day. It is an 8 hr drive from where I am at for a round trip. I try to get out to parts of Pa to do some shopping once a year since I can slip in and out of town without a problem now. Even though I know half the town eather way. Anyway it does pay to streach out everything in the household. When you start streaching out the dollars it seems like it doesen't make since untill it becomes rutine and then it clicks. That is the point that I have been trying to get across in my blog. Sometimes it takes awhile to get use to sometimes it doesen't. When I first started it seemed to take forever to sink in. And I was really stocked up on everything. Knowing in how broke I was gonna be with just myself working at a full time job that diden't pay squat at the time made it hard also. I may have had 20 dollars left by the end of the month after I paid the bills at the time. Well acouple of folks had helped and I ended up on food stamps for about a year and that was it. Just so I had some food in the household. Pluss I was dumpster diveing on top of it all for food. You get really good on what is good and not good when you get use to all of it. I remember one time that my husband and I were argueing over in how much I spent before all of this went down. I still had the 20 dollar bill on me and knowing his sister was coming up I made a bread run at the back of one of the stores in the area. Well the manager was so nice and asked if i could stick around for a bit he would fix me up. He over loaded the Honda that I had at the time and I was almost in tears when I had all the food becuase I was greatfull for what I got. Well it started a fight that was the motherload of all fights at the time and handed him the 20 dollars. Then he realized that I diden't spend nothing and I got really lucky that day and that started the fight with the out laws. All the Manager said was remember this and pass it along when you can to other folks. And I have. The more I got into being cheap/frugal the more I wanted to go further into it and see what else I could do for my place.

In a quiet place so far

It is still pretty quiet around here so far this morning. Almost everyone went back to bed this morning and I am sitting here basking with the Food Network and the computer. I am still plotting on where to start for this weeks laundery. Well at least it's not to bad around for laundery at this point in time. Pluss I have to wait on the Hippies stuff out of the truck so I will start in on the towels and a load of whites. With the food channel going I am getting ideas for dinner at least for tonight. See what happends when I sit here alone I get dinner ideas for most of the weekend and a few others also. Pluss knowing that the Hippy will be out for another hour or so makes it even better on me. The funny part is that I will get meals up for under 5 dollars and have the left overs for part of the week also. All I can say is that I don't mind cooking and haveing leftovers at all. It is hard cooking for one person during the week. The left overs are better the next day here. Anyway at the moment the van is still in the shop and I get to walk if I need something for the place. Thank goodness that all of the stores are within walking distance from my place. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Ok Now for the night time here

The car is getting fixed and I am not saying who is doing it. SO I will be out of a car/van untill Monday which I could care less about untill I have to go get it. So I went out to the reservation at 715 am this morning and got back by 5 till 8 this morning and got to thinking and got a stress headache after that. I made a phone call and that was it. I saved a dollar at the reservation and I am good for at least 2 weeks here for the both of us in smokes. I had alot of things off this am and still do. Well it is not so bad around here since I can walk to alot of places from the can. I told the one that droped me off you can drop me off at Walmart and it wont hurt one bit since it takes me about 3 min to walk back to the can. I got droped off at home and oh well. Other wise I am home for tomarrow and the power will be off all over the place eather way. Today was just a bad day all over the place. Stressed all over and it still turns out. It goes that way with me stress out and it works out for the best. Tomarrow will be better to say the least, Monday will be even better yet. Wheel bags and walking ya can't beat it at all. Ok letting you all know in how the day went. Have fun and play hard.

For today

Here shortly I will be heading out to the reservation. Well cheaper smokes always works for my place. I am suprized that the Canadian Border doesent say anything about not haveing the stickers for the packs of cigs. Ok the one time I messed up and had to remember not to stick the extra carton in for the truck. All the customs folks said just remember to bring one next time and don't worry about it at the moment. Anyway there's not much to do around here for today since I have got most of the housework done. Touch ups are always nice around here anyway. So I will have everything off and start somewhat picking up to do something around here. It won't be an exciteing day at all around here at all. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Bummer day so far again

Well the van is still not fixed yet. I am almost done with it and about ready to start walking again. The only bad part is that I would have to barrow a car to get out to the res to do some shopping once a month out that way. I am not worried about the other shopping at all since I do have wheel bags. That is where the van stands at this point in time. Anyway I have been thinking again on where to cut on the budget once again. It is just one of them days of haveing things dropped in my lap and lets see what I can do with other things also while I am at it all while I am overly frustrated on things. May as well as I figured it all. So at this point in time I have cut more out and mean it. Since the days are getting longer I haven't turned on the one light yet for the bird. I have to cut where I can now and that is part of it. There are a few other things also that I am cutting also. Since I hardly go out to eat that is not a problem at all around here pluss I hardly go out to the bars also. Now I am also thinking of getting more recipies to make more of the meals from scratch also around here. I just can't see ripping a box open for meals around here. Also after about 4 years I am running low on shampoo around here. It kills me to say it. What amazes me around here is that I had so much shampoo, conditioner, and bar soap that it hurt. What some would do was just keep buying it and then forget what she bought the month before around her place. After she passed away I ended up with a tote full of stuff to go thru. It was pretty bad for about 3 years after haveing a hodge podge worth of stuff to use of course. After the 4th year I have one bottle of shampoo that is left and happy about it. All I could do was shake my head and start useing it all up. Now since all but one bottle has been used up I have been finding that shampoo and conditioner has been on sale alot more lately at the stores. And for dirt cheap prices for what we use. I did pick up 2 bottles of shampoo the other day while I was out. Now I will be looking for alot more bargins out in the stores and will use coupons on top of it also. At this point I have no choice but to do this. Also I am cutting out the lunch meats while I am at it. There is no need for it since I threw out the person that ate all of the lunch meat to begin with. Now some are going to be totally be mad at me and I just don't care anymore. I am going to the very cheap side of life again. I have started with it already for the very cheap side once again. I will also let you folks know in the afternoon or evenings in how the day has went. With the mornings I will let you know what I have planed for the day also. What I have in my mind is not as bad as I think it is niether. The worst part at this point is getting use to the changes once again.

Still not a good day

Still waiting on a phone call for the car. I did get some things done and lunch cooked for my own Hippy around here. Pluss got the bird feeder filled up for the out side birds. It keeps Olliver happy since he can see the other birds outside. Well it is not to bad around here at all since it was a really cheap lunch off the sandwich maker. Pluss I still have soup around here and leftovers. Well I have been fairly cheap so far this morning and afternoon. It is not that hard to do around here at all. Who needs extra bird seed when there's leftovers from my bird to fill the bird seeder. Olliver picks and digs thru the dish that he has. Whatever lands on the bottom of the cage and what is left in his dish after acouple of days gets switched for new. I have a gallon ice cream bucket for the stuff that Olliver won't eat at all. After it gets full then I go out and fill the seeder outside. So it is a double feeding after I get done. Yes that is cheap but then why waste something that the outside birds will eat around here. It goes along with ok how far can I push something around here and reuse it also. Or will it fall apart in the next useing around my place. Just like the thin towels around here. I use them to cover the kitchen chairs. It works and protects the chairs while I am at it all. A bit of bleach and deturgant they come clean from the ring around the collar as I say. Pluss I like to keep one at the bottom of the cage where the main pertch is for Olliver. That is the only time he is messy besides dive bombing the food dish. He learned early and the vac running to pick up the seeds that went all over the place. Just like my computer I find free stuff, coupons, and wright off of it. Pluss there are free games also. Pluss there are free recipies on the net. I will tell you what in todays age it is nice to have the free stuff around. It makes for a bit easier time to go up to the mail box when you only have dirty (bills) mail and a few samples also. The free samples will help in the long run when you are totally broke one month. When you have what calls for a load of laundery sample it is really 2 loads in my place. Well that is what I say as in streaching out the dollar and streaching out other things in the household. It works for when you are broke and once you get into the habbit of doing then it seems like ok I can keep doing this after everything. Just like when I started cutting the dryer sheets in half. I wasen't sure if it would work or not. Well I tried it and diden't mind it even with a double load of laundery in the dryer. I started that becuase I diden't have a dryer in the can. Pluss I had the other set of 3 girls in my can at the time. I had bought brand new jammies for the 2 younger ones also and never got them back so I started hitting up yard sales at the time and spent a dollar on 4 pairs of jammies that would find thier way back to my place. The girls Mother was a pig on things like that. The cheaper I went the more chances the things would find thier way back dirty and then some. Well I got good at mending and spot cleaning the jammies so much that they still looked new once one grew out of them and the next one was growing into them. That is why I say if you have growing children in the household go to yard and garage sales in the spring summer and fall and you may find pretty good stuff for dirt cheap pluss hit up the clarence racks at the end of the season also. Most children will not mind that the item is used at all if they are in good shape. In my household ya hollared about it then you got nothing new except undies and socks. Well after they hollared enough I still diden't get them new items just the used ones and they learned that I wasen't gonna be pushed. Well once children learn now days just becuase the state say so doesen't mean it is so in all households most of the workers understand of what you can afford and that is it. Most of the problems today is that the children have to much power and the parents rights don't matter PERIOD. A friend told a CPS worker straight out I brought the children into this world I can indefanatly take thier toushes out of here also. Just like I told one CYS worker in PA if it was abuse to be amancipated at 16 then why the Hell did the Judge alow it in the first place. I also told them that The child is on her own at that point also and may as well get use to it since it was so Damn funny that we all had to show up in court for the spoiled brat. Anyway at this point the boy has missed school once again over at 34 here in the park. It doesen't do any good to call anybody at all since the school system doesen't care and niether do the Town Clowns (cops) around here. And since one parent is home it doesen't matter why the boy missed niether. Anyway at least it is a good day all and all. Have fun and play hard.

Well nothing got done

Nothing got done yesterday and still waiting on the van. That is ok becuase I get the wipers done at least yesterday. So lets see how it all goes today while I am waiting on the phone call for a piece to fix the van. Well at least it is not to bad around here since I did cook dinner lastnight once again. Now for the next 2 days I will eat the leftovers and more than likely the Hippy will be out all weekend since he had a bad start to the week already. Oh well at least I do still have a tight budget around here. I see already it is gonna be another Monday today. Well at this point some have forgot phones and books for the truck and thank goodness the truck hasen't fully warmed up as of yet. So I had to go back up and hand everything to him. Well now the lovely Govener of this blasted state is trying to charge taxes on the Reservations again. When will some learn around here in this state?????? I will be one of the first to help out on the res. When a pack of KOOL'S are 8 dollars a pack off the reservation and 4 dollars of the 8 are state taxes. The Government around here doesen't see the problem at all. When they are bringing in at least 100,000 a year for a pay check pluss health care when most of us are makeing under 50 grand a year and are struggleing to pay bills and put food on the table. I will say that the state of NY is overly broke around here. It is time for the Government to take pay cuts and bring in thier own T.P. and paper towels to the office like I had to with one company that I worked for. Yes I am still cutting the fat off of my budget and it is a never ending proccess sometimes. When there are some of us cutting and slashing bills around here so should the Government and see where it all goes to. Like unplugging stuff when you are about to leave the office and do the secritaries really need 5 more secrataries to help them all out also. Ok with Patterson yes I can see why he needs a Driver. That I do not mind to pay for since he is legally blind. But, when there's 6-10 secrataries in one office you tend to wander on what the heck are they all doing. Pluss there are gofers for all of the government around here also. Also the cell phones that they use for free and cars for part of the perks. Well at least with the state of Illinois you can expect part of them paid off and sent to prison. Around here it's a totally differant ball game. When you have someone who paid for a call girl with the states money they should have been in prison as of when they got busted for it all. The rest of would have been sent in a heartbeat. They have filed no charges what so ever to the last govener here in NY State. Anyway most of the polititions woulden't survive off of what I do for my household. They also woulden't be caught in places like Aldi, Save a Lot, the dollar stores, and Ollie's to shop at. Nor would they be caught dead useing coupons to streach out that bill also. With alot of the problems here in NY State is the folks in Albany just don't give a rat's behind on how most of us try to live around here at all. Yes I can throw a bash at my place and spend alot less than the parties for the polititions do it for. It's called bring your own drinks and a side dish at my place. Pluss I don't have a maid nor a cook while I am at it all. Granted some folks eather can not cook or just plain out refuse to cook for them selves. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Ok sitting back as of now

I got my own Hippy out of the door and into Collins this morning and called my one guy to get the van up and going again. So it is one of them days again and my head is still spinning yet today. Now with today the 600 dollar plate just got to me also this morning. I am still shakeing my head on that one since that is about 4 months worth of groceries to my household. Or most of the bills eather way you look at it. Anyway I am really debateing on what I should do after this inspection at this point in time with my older van. Well I am kind of embarrassed that my windshield wipers have almost lasted me for about 5 years. It will be 5 years in May. Like I drive that much anyway while I am alone. Besides save up more cans at this point in time. Well I will say it is that at least I am cheap around here and like it all. If I could squeek any harder than what I do now I would without a problem. Ok I will admit that lastnight was just a wierd one since I am not use to haveing the Hippy here on a Monday at all. Radiation my toush is all I can say and the truck needs to be fixed anyway so 2 for one shot. Well I need to thank the dispatch team from the company for not haveing the room in a King size bed at 430 am. Ok Ok it is funny. Pluss now I won't be so bad by tomarrow with ok I am board with what I go thru during the week. Without the Dog I am much worse than without the Hubby/Hippy. I will not complain since my Mother is over 80 and my dog waited on her to hook the leash and then was told go. So I can say that my household/canhold does run like a well oiled machine as normal. That is the best part of my place when last night the hippy looked at me and said am I driveing or are you. The look I gave hime told it all you are driveing at this point. So we landed at Wegmans and went from there. There is alot of stuff that I just haven't put away as of yet after I started thinking way to much with other things here and the idiots in Albany NY. Well also the movie Ground Hogs day is on. All I can do is laugh about it at this point becuase it is so true. Drink untill it gives you a hangover and do it again the next day. That is how you really servive the town and don't tell the doctors the truth also. By the time I got home my hangover was done and I was still mad. The bowling alley is down the street from my Sister in laws old place. Every place that they filmed at I have been at. From the bars to the eateries and the bowling ally. Alot of folks remember me down there becuase I do trash 2 families and go from there. And the feud will not end untill ma bell goes. You never seen a family draw lines on someone untill the Mercers and Youngs with someone who was not related to them all. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

When will they stop

Now one of the polititions here in NY State is hosting a fund raiser in the cityof Albany for 600 dollars a plate of food. All I can say is it better be gold plated or leafed. That is alittle much for a fundraiser when the unemplyment lines are still getting longer and people that have lost thier benifets. Now I can show folks what to do with an extra 600 dollars in my pocket. I got good deals last night at the grocery store. Ended up walking out for 20 dollars and some change and 5 bags of stuff. And there are at least 4 days of meals off of what I got also. What I would love to see around with the Government here in NY State is to live off of 1200 dollars a month for 6 months and see where they all get. Got the feeling that most woulden't get very far off of that and no medical on top of it. I would end up laughing if that all happend. Gee no prime cuts of beef off 1200 a month. Anyway now I know that alot of us have been liveing off of the 1200 if not a bit more or less. We all manage to get food and other things for the households. Pluss pay all the bills off of that much. What gets to me is that there is alot of burger and chicken in my household. Every so often yes I do get pork when it is on sale at the stores. Pluss I get the cheaper cuts of beef. Like it matters after I throw it into the crock pot and it cooks for about 10 hours also. Now around here one of the local news stations have been running the deal of the day segments. Well I can say that I have found some better deals than they all have. The good deals are not hard to find you just have to dig them up off the net and or over at your favorite stores. This is why there are the bargin and clearence racks and shelves. I have picked up a window fan for 4 dollars normally they run about 30 dollars for what I picked up. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

It's Monday for sure

Well it's Monday. The trucks air brakes froze up and its crazy at another shop with the guy and my day hasen't been totally good as of yet except I am in the can out of the snow and sleet out side. Now is the time I wish I had enough for the woodburner and a house at this point in time. I am getting there slowly by the nickles that I am saveing up. I picked up another 20 cents today of course trash day today around the park. All I did was go across the street for the 20 cents. Now that is bad when I can spot bottles from the passenger side of the van. I am still waiting for the snow to melt for the season to hit the bottom of the snow piles for more nickles and other change. Well I can tell you it does pay off when I go to the store to cash in the cans at least. And that is from the can. As I say every penny, nickle, dime, and quarter helps in a place. Even my Hippy will tell you that I sqeek when I walk and pinch untill everything screams more than once when I do let go of the money. Sometimes I have to laugh about it all. Well after all said and done I do well by collecting the cans at times and other things. Well after streaching everything out that I can around here it is well worth the time for alot of it. Pluss clipping coupons on top of it all. Well after being so broke for so long you tend to stick to what works for you. Like I cut my dryer sheets in half and have cut the laundery deturgant down to hardly anything for the laundery. I started that about 12 years ago if not longer. Pluss cutting back on the grocery bill also. I have clipped coupons also and keep doing it still to this day. Thanks to some places for takeing the printed coupons. There are alot of tricks of cutting back. Alot of folks around the area have lost thier jobs by the doors closeing or have been layed off to the point of they are almost out of unemployment also. Now the Sweet Blind guy who took over NY State is planning to close all the state parks also. Well that just shot his toush if he does that part around here. Figure at least a million folks go to see Niagara Falls a year and at least 250,000 dollars in taxes off of that. Not includeing all the hotels and other places also while he is at it all. We are broke enough around here without the closeing of the main tourist spot for the city. Some of us are ready for a couple of months around here but, still it would put the state into a bankrupt state of frame even worse after that. Well after thinking of that I have came to the state of mind that I will still keep clipping coupons and not shop as much unless it is on sale and with a coupon on top of it once again then streach it out to the max while I'm at it all. I am always trying to find cheaper ways to run the household around here. Some things I have tried and retried and it still has not work for me. I have unplugged and the power bills are still way high with the taxes. Now NY State and most of the seaboard gets thier power from Canada the power prodject in another countery. The NY State pwoer project is about 10 min's from here. What does this tell you with NY State being greedy. Oh well at least there are ways around all that now in some places. And I do shut off alot of the power during the day around here also. Alot of things are a habit around here and yes I say things over and over. That is how I learned around here. Some of us are like that. Or we try something for about a month and it does not work eather way you hash it at all. Well folks have fun and play hard.

Nice thing about

One nice thing of getting up early is that I get more done around here during the day. And after yesterday I am still shakeing my head in disscussed over it all. No more are staying at my place at all. As a couple of good friends told me if and when you are staying someplace look around and see what needs to be done don't wait to be asked to do. Well around here most of the people that come over know I do streach out everything that I can. I refuse to go broke for anyone that has been to my place at all. Pluss there are some that come over and we start talking on how to save money in our way of doing things. It does help when we all get to laughing about what we have done and tried. Some were amazed when I turned off most of the lights except for 2 of them and thier power bill droped 50 dollars just within a couple of hours of the lights being off. And the dog that they had at the time diden't mind it so much at all. It was enough so she could see what was going on at the door. At the time also I diden't have the bird also so I would always sit in the dark and have a candle going to see. Now this morning when my Hippy leaves I will shut off everything and get 2 candles going in the kitchen and that is all I need to go with. Most of what I am doing today will be on the run anyway. The dishes can wait untill tomarrow if I do not get to them today. Along with a few other things here in the can. Since I have about 5 days here alone I do what I can during the day and go from there. I will admit in a way I am spoiled kind of in that since that I do what I can on cleaning while the Hippy is gone. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Now I know why I did

Well after this Jose has lost my respect for him. He called me all but a liar to my face about a jacket that he took and brought back something totally differant. What he took was a black thermal zipper jacket. What he tried to give to me was a pull over (I don't wear pullovers at all) and it was grey with raceing stripes on the sleaves and it was fleese. Well I told him straight out in how it was and is gonna be. I can play this game since I do have to run into the city tomarrow also. All I can do is tell the truth and I will not flipping lie for nobody at all. Now with that being said I have nothing to loose around here niether except for my temper anymore. My whole thing is when I asked, begged, and pled with the maroon, I got nowhere at all untill I threw him out. Now I feel better after I blew up and was right in the matter at this point in time once again. Well also I am not putting up with oh I put it here when I have done laundery for most of the week and got it all done except for blankets. I keep everything in laundery bags in the hallway outside of the bathroom. Since that also serves as a laundery area in my can. I have cleared out the hallway 3 times already since I have thrown the lazy one out. Pluss rearanged the spare room for the most part also while I was at it. That is how I knew he lied to me at that moment. Pluss there are other things missing also around here. That I am not to worried about it and it won't get replaced at all I have came to realize. When I have spent 45 dollars on a good jacket for when the real cold hits so I could have an extra layer on under my heavy jacket I wander why I am steaming mad from when he all but called me a liar and then turned around and lied to me. I stuck my foot down hard and now Jose will realize I wont put up with the garbage that others will. Part of that comes from being screwed for so long by differant people at many times in the past 15 years of being up here in NY State. I have got to the point of now I am putting my foot down and saying so. And I will always be very blunt on things and will continue to do so from now on and don't care who I hurt.

Maybe I think to much

I got to thinking while I was folding laundery and throwing in the next load into the washer. Well at this point I am not going over to the launderymat at all anymore thanks to my washer and dryer in the can. Pluss the Hippy won't let me go without a washer here also. Some have called me spoiled and some I refused to say at all. I get the last laugh here since I get alot of things done on my own without help. What gets to me is that I have offered a person some help just becuase. I get shot down all of the time and no calls back if the person doesen't want to go or do something at all. So I gave up after this last go around. This has been going on since November of last year. After this go around I gave up. Now I refuse to wait on a phone call I will go out and do from now on. Just like I did lastnight, I went anyway and had a good time. All I have asked is for a call to say something instead of being ignored. Well the last call that I made to the person she asked what do I do with all of the quarter coupons that she had. I told her if she was useing the product to use the coupons when she went to the store. A quarter is better than nothing of course for saveings. Since the gal was left broke she doesen't consider to use coupons at all along with other things that she should have been doing from the beginning. Now maybe I hope I did get thru to her somewhat on watching every nickle going in and out. Alot of folks have had to lately. With all the job loss and benafits running out and some still haven't cut back totally for thier place alot of folks do not have a clue. I have been dealing with one vehical also for the past 15 years. It hasen't bothered me when the car/van goes down at any time at all around here. Also I have not had a brand new car at all. Some folks that is all that they want is "brand new" and that is it and you can't change thier minds niether. Well with me I just do not want the payments that others have out there at all. When I can sit here and say that I do save up my money to get things and may change my mind once I get to the point where I do have money for the things that I was saveing up for also. I would rather know that I have the money pulled back than not have it at all.

What did I get myself into

Ok here it is not even 24 hrs yet after I have went out. And got the sofa in and the old one out of here already and swept also. Looks like a laundery bomb went off in the hall way and I know of 2 folks who paid for last night. I am still laughing about what happened last night and wont give out details you had to have been there in order to really get the all of what went on. For the person who diden't call to say I am not going and hasen't bothered with me since last week at all you missed a good time out and a couple of hours out of the place oh well I will stop asking from then on also. I am still shakeing my head on that altogeather at this point. It was a good night to get out of the can still and had to laugh at some things that happened also. So in the schem of the day I have put back togeather the kitchen and most of the family room. Some still don't really realize in how much I needed for storage and have got alot of my storage since I do have a small space. So to get the loveseat out of here also was another blessing. Now I have to figure out where to put and what again here in the main room. And tomarrow is going to be worse since I have to get out for a couple of things also. This week will be hairry to say the least around here. It will all be done fairly cheap also and not to many problems there of course. So let the fun begin as of tomarrow and lets see what I can get done while I am at it all. On Tuesday I can start in on the can for cleaning of course and other things here. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Way to much fun lastnight

Well my poor Hippy lastnight. I learned how to poka years ago and was trying to teach him how to. Not to many under 40 were out on the dance floor for that one and here I was leading the best I could to teach my Hippy on how. I am also paying for danceing lastnight. Anyway if you go out finally like I have, you can go out fairly cheap. Some of us were in rare form and that's why I don't mind hanging out with the folks that I do also. Everything said and done do your homework and find a good band out there and go danceing. Now I know where we were at there was a 3 dollar per head admit for a door charge. For a couple of hours out and to help the band pick up after they were done. The one gal that was suppose to go out with the both of us never bothered to call so we went out anyway. By 830 pm no call no show I am walking out the door. I will not stay home becuase of that at all. The gal missed a good time lastnight anyway and it is not my loss on it at all. Now for today I have to lift 2 heavy sofas. Wish I did have the hangover that I wanted for when I woke up. Well that was the down side to lastnight and early this morning. I wasen't driveing home anyway (I suffer from night blindness). So I let my hubbs drive home. Well I better get a move on with the van got to gather up the bottles that have been tossed in the back end and clean it out so I can transport the sofa to my place. Pluss I have to start the washer once again for what I diden't get from yesterday. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

OK, OK

Well I have been sitting here and my other Hippy has been calling here today asking for my Hippy. All I can really do is laugh at this point. Now how I diden't hear my cell phone go off lastnight is beyond me and it does happen. So I picked up the voice mail this morning and thought ok I will call my other Hippy back when I get woke up totally around here. The poor man was calling me back at 1030 am this morning to see what and how and if I had heard anything from my Hippy at all. I am so use to not getting a phone call that I really don't worry to much untill I get a call from the DOT or the State Troupers eather way. As I have been keeping fairly busy around here and did hear the cell phone ring I realized that the dryer had stoped also while I was at it all. Well at least I can say that I have been doing around here and not being totally lazy also and ok I haven't heard from my Husband since last night at all and I am not to overly worried about it at this point at all. Well being such good friends with My other Hippy and his Wife we all pretty much worry about everything that happends. Well none of them can not say that I am doing the normal Saturday chores around here at all. That is why more than likely of why I am laughing at this point in time for things around here. All I could really say is that I married a Truck Driver what do ya want around here. All I can really do is sit here and wait anyway and not much more than that. Pluss figureing also may as well do the things that I need to get done within reason becuase I know I have more laundery coming weather I like it or not so may as well get a head start on knowing what I am in for anyway and start laughing. I haven't even bothered to pull the directions yet for where I am going to tonight as of yet so does it seem like I am totally overly worried about my Hippy not being here as of yet. I figure if I start freaking out now it wont do any good anyway it won't get my Hippy here any faster anyway. Also I have to wait on the hot water anyway so I am not to worried as of yet. Well getting 4 loads done so far today what can I say about that part of the chores. As long as the hair and makeup are done who cares on what I do during the day at this point while I am waiting. And who wants to be around or see me do my hair anyway as I look at it all for tonight. Well what can I do untill things explode around here nothing untill they all do. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Another day of cleaning

Well since I diden't do much yesterday I got somewhat overloaded today with cleaning. I do not mind one bit becuase I am keeping busy untill my Hippy gets in. Well I am doing everything as cheap as I can around here anyway it is like a force of habbit with me. I am sitting here and thinking of the next cheap thing to do besides laundery around here also. May as well work in the place around here and it makes it all go faster for when the Hippy does get here along with going out tonight on top of it all to see the Eletric Rodeo. What fun is all I can say about the band members. Since I have about 7 hrs to get ready I am not in any rush what so ever around here at all. One thing about cutting back as much as possible when you can you can really go out and have some fun at times. That is what alot of folks get mad at me for around here. I cut and cut and I am happy with it all when I can cut the fat off the household. Yes I do go out and have fun at times around here. Almost have to or go compleatly bonkers here. At times yes I do need to be drug out by the pony tail to go out. Well I knew about this acouple of weeks ago and I am going eather way weather people like it or not around here. I have also let folks know when the band is playing also. So yes in away it does pay to be cheap so if you want to go out and see a band you can do so. Being frugal/cheap it is in the eyes of who is doing it all also. If you know you can deal without the cup of coffee at least once a week out someplace then you are on the way.

Knowing I should have

Well I knew I should have baught the sofa over at Big Lots over the weekend and diden't. I was thinking of geting the van inspected first then to buy the sofa. Well niether has happended as of yet. Well I have 19 dollars on me and not for long when someone gets over here to barrow it tonight. I am just tired of lending out money and not getting it back untill when ever. Folks think I have money when I really don't at all. Well what happends is that the folks that barrow off of me think that I am rich since we make about 400 dollars more a month than what they get with thier disability. Well all I can say is I have been streaching the money out for so long that it has hurt eather way. It has about killed me to buy underware that I really needed and I do need more but now I just cant with the 19 dollars going out on loan.

Just can't stand for somethings

Ok I had to make a trip to walmart again today becuase of a thing that I have to go thru here. Well 5 dollars later and for 3 nights it just isen't worth it anymore. I am still not ready to make my own things yet for haveing a friend once a month no matter how broke I am around here. Sorry for those who make thier own sanatary pads for the monthly visit. Maybe it is the bucket with bleach water that I can't stand for or it is the easier to grab the bag out of the trash can is what makes it easier on me. It is like haveing the fecal matter on T.P. in the trash bucket all of the time and changeing it out. Well I change the bucket once a day at that time of the month anyway but still I prefure not to get sick nor have anyone totally grossed out at the fact of doing something just totally non since to the modern times also. Now I won't blame someone if they have homemade pads at home at all. There are just somethings like that I just won't do to save money at all. The bucket and the homemade pads are just out there for me at this point still to this day. When the others are much more sanatary than the homemade ones any day of the week. Then again what if you forget to wash them once a day then what is where I am getting at in todays world. Another thing is what if you live with all males in the place also. Ok so I know how to hide things without a problem at all. Most of the men that I have worked with were clueless on what time of the month it was for me at any given time when I did work with all men. I left no trace behind at all and I used the mens restroom most of the time anyway. There would be 2 of us cleaning and it made it easier on both. Ok folks have fun on the tidbit and play harder.

After much thought

After much thought and rehashing the thought I am so happy that the judge never gave me custoty of Liberty-Ann at all. After I went thru with the bump on the log I diden't need a lazy teenager on the mix niether on top of it all. And all from the lies upon lies on top it all with other things here in my place. Now I have went on the cheap side of life and like it all here and now without the total lazy folks that I don't need. Or it maybe the Lazy folks way of saying that why bother to go cheaper in the place when you pay lot rent also. That doesen't include other bills that I have to pay around the can also while I am at it all. As my Sister in Law use to say that I was the Rich Bitch or the Spoiled Bitch out of the group when I was working all of the time out of the household. That is what got to me the most is when I got out of the place I always worked nomatter what to afford the can and go from there. I never got belittled from the Hippy on what work I did do and when at all. All of a suddin from a 15 yo mouth I got called trailer trash when I was not on welfare at the time like this child was. Now Liberty-Ann is on total welfare also and SS Servivores benafets when both of her parents are alive and kicking. Now please explain this to me except the State of PA is so screwed up like NY is that it is not even funny. Well after the paper work on Liberty-Ann went to eather Christine's,Tammy's or to Ruths place and the Hippy and I coulden't find it I refused to fight for Liberty-Ann to give her a desent household to live in nor to fight for her toush. I let her go into the foster care system becuase that is what Liberty-Ann wanted anyway. After that I got brand new stuff and a few other things also without her toush here at all. Pluss I kept my husband out of jail and a few other folks while I was at it all by not takeing Liberty-Ann into my household or can eather way.

After dropping off

After I droped off the Hippy last night I went to bed maybe an hour after that. Today is not so bad so far of not hurting as much. Maybe I can get alot more done today of course. Just when will the laundery and dishes end I have no clue around here. I was teasing the Hippy about it last night about it all. He gave me that look like ohhhhh you done lost your marbles kid. I may do the dishes twice a week if nobody is here except myself. I don't go thru alot of dishes at all around here. It is mainly coffee cups and ash trays and that is it. Ok so I drink soup out of a coffee cup most days. This week was an oddity with the Hippy coming home for dinner. I think what it is, is that everyone wants me on my toes to see if I can come up with a cheap quick dinner under 3 dollars per person around here. I have had enough practice on that one at least in the past 20 years of cooking. Pluss now I am so thankfull that I did go grocery shopping acouple of weeks ago to put some meats into the place after the bump on the log got droped at the curb. Pluss with the question last night also if he was still here. Well after all said and done the bump on the log was told that the park coulden't hire him yet at all and diden't know when they could. And told not to waste the money coming back up. Well he diden't pay for the ticket Leona Cox did. I seen the paper work with my own eyes. After all the food that went out the door around here with the bump on the log that is when I knew all he wanted me for was a cook, maid, and slave around here and I wasent niether of those to any man on earth at all. Even when the Hippy gets back off the road he helps me out nomatter how tired he is. The funny part of it all is that I normally clean the cat box out and the Hippy has done it without a problem and without being asked nor begged to do it. Now with Jose he could care less let it over flow and go from there was his attatude on alot of things around here. So here I sit and the place has been mainly clean after I got him out of here even the dishes do not have the layer of crap on them from Jose just running them under cold water and swearing that they are clean. And the park manager was told about it also in why I threw him out on his toush. Things have been getting much cheaper also around here after I took back the can. I have been trying new things and some have not worked at all. Like washing the foil that I just used for to cook dinner with. Just becuase it doesen't work for me doesen't mean it wont work for the next person. Also I am about to try when I run out of bathroom cleaner to just use bleach in the bathroom. Like it matters around here anyway in what I do but I have to watch for the bird also and how he reacts to it all. That is why I do not mind useing the Green Works products to clean with. It costs a bit more and it doesen't bother the bird at all when I go to really cleaning around here. So today will be a good day around here since I can really clean and go from there. Ok folks have fun and play harder.

Well free and others

I have 5 free boxes of tea sitting on the counter and alot of lids missing. Go figure on that one. They were there 3 weeks ago and I already know who and why. Then the question came up of is Jose still there with ya. The Hippy is like no my wife threw his toush out 2 weeks ago and asked and reasked on alot of things and the lazy bum diden't wanna listen. Put it this way the management diden't blame me one bit at all. The lazy bum did the same to her in the office trailer. Now I am happy that I don't have to put up with the B.S. anymore around here. Not only that I did find out today that some of us are still doing better than others at this point. Pretty sick that some of us can sit back and still work on other things than go out side of the place to work. And others are getting thier collage education. Now I can really laugh becuase some of us got lucky. After all of the years of fighing my way up, being cheap, and streaching out the dollars I can somewhat sit at home and still worry but not totally here. What gets to me the most is that I can work from home and do what I have to do around here without a problem. Another thing is that now I have a palce full of food and my bills are all paid up to date also. Now with my one cousin she is so far into debt that she had her 16 yo daughter start working to pay the morgage on the house that they just spent way to much on. Now for years this so called woman has had no food in her place for niether her nor the child they have always went to grandmas house to eat and grab food over the years. I Never did that at all. I would rather starve than have it held over my head that I grabed food there. That is how I am and always will be. That is why I started with coupons and getting very cheap food to feed the household nomatter where I was at. Also I started out early trying to streach out the food in the place weather be in someones house or in my own. Pluss I always had children to feed also. So now all I can do is shake my head on alot of things still and go from there. A good friend of mine said this past week I always had a baby or young child hooked to my hip and she was right. So now that I have the place to myself do I want children yes is it top on my list no at this point yet. I will start looking for more free stuff when I do get prego of course. More coupons sure. It is in my nature to do so and be cheap as possible for the household and I don't care what others think at all.

As I plot out the day

I still hurt from when I sliped and busted my toush walking home. I think that I will stick around here after yesterday anyway. Olliver was laying across the one purch this morning when I uncovered him. He looked at me like morning just let me lie here for a bit. So anyway at least by the look I got he is ok for now. Still in all I may have the Hippy take the car in to a friend so he can do some work on it. So eather way I may just stay here and relax then to putter with the little things at this point today. Lots of brusis still and will have for awhile. Anyway Everything will be off once again today eather way that I go. Who needs background noise anyway when I can watch the neighborhood from my kitchen window. That is the highlight of the day anyway since I am so boring around here according to some folks. And that is fine by me. Since I do rework some recipies anyway during the day around here when I get really down and out for something to do. Pluss I can start the laundery also since I do not have to bend over to get the load at all. It is early to start it for this week and that is ok less I have to do during the weekend while I get other things done also. Well around here while it is quiet I seem to get more done anyway even if I am sitting on my toush. This week has been a wierd one to say the least around here. I will explain it later on today. It has also been a cheap week. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Shakeing my head now

Why I just haven't totally went after Leona Cox yet is beyond me. Olliver had a sezure once again this after noon. She never told me about it at all. Then the acusseing me of doing something that I diden't. I diden't want nothing to do with her after that at all. Well after this never again will I take Leona's boyfriend oh sorry screw buddy nor another animal that she wants to give to me. Also I refuse to go back to Avon becuase of Leona also. I told her no 3 times and had to cancel the thing myself after an argument in my place and knowing that I lost my toush the last time. Everyone was shocked when I said I told her no. I have an Avon dealer that I use even though I do not sell it anymore. The person also knows to order a perfume for me when it comes up in the books. Anyway at this moment I am shakeing my heat still and checking on the bird often. Now with the commercials I expect Olliver to talk since his Ina is on at the moment. One of his favorite people along with Paula Dean. Well with a bird who is sick you pretty much let him do what they want to do and eat. I know that Olliver is a happy bird just trying to get thru every spat that he has at this point. I will say this Olliver has filled out since I have got him. He was so scroney that it hurt. Olliver was my bitter at one point in time. Now I can reach into the cage with my bare hands and pick him up. Olliver was so starved for food and attintion that he is still catching up almost a year later. Leona has lied her toush off to me so far and now she has been totally busted wide open. I am still waiting on the pictures she supposadly has of me and someone else. All I can say about that is the person better be in bondage and bald on top of it. It is cheaper to shave than get boils lanced at any time. Oh well at least I can say is that I am calmer than what I was at 20 otherwise I would have knocked Leona and her screw buddy out by now. Wandering if Leona's new beau knows about it all. All the bills will come back to normal here within a couple of months here and I can still come up swinging after all of it. I figure about 800 dollars once it all leveals out for the household once again. That is includeing the storage and 2 cell phones with the normal bills of the place. Then another about 100-150 a month for groceries and other things for the place. Yes it is a bit high for someplace of course but the tourist traps are set up eather way I go around here.

Realizeing I have it good

Over the years I have been called a Rich Bitch and a Spoiled Bitch from how I thought were friends and an Out Law that I won't comment on to much. I have came to rialize that I am niether and have worked for what I have here in the tin can all togeather and could care less about what others say about me eather way. Alot of what I do have has came from coupons and being cheaper than snot pluss working at times out side of the can to make ends meat and have food in here also to eat along with the children that were left in my care also to eat. Now after some serching on the net I have found that I can cook cheaper from scratch than the pulling out of a box cheap. Today I found myself in so much pain that I coulden't stand it at all so I ended up at Walmart instead of takeing pain killers I got a 30 pack instead and a few other things while I was there. As I told my mother last night call off the curse woman becuase they are growing. All she could do was laugh and you ain't are ya. I told her no becuase I know I am not prego. Long story and in the short my one sister taught me about babies at 15 years old. Well my Mom and I can laugh becuase like any girl growing up I wanted to be bigger than I was. Now that I am I know why my mom and one sister has back problems as they do latter in life. Well one with the other what can I say. Anyway now I have been doing alot of odd ball stuff around here and it has been working for me for the 5 days a week around here if not longer.

Nice morning so far

Well I got woke up at 230 am Olliver had another siezure. What a way to start the day for the household. So now I have to watch the bird for the morning to make sure he doesen't go into another one at all. After I took away the bitters and tonic from Olliver he has had less of the spats also. I wander if Leona Cox desided to put other things in the bottle other than leaveing it alone. Anyway now at least I can say that after the mess that Leona tried to make of my household she is so done with me. I have kept to myself and will continue to do so and go cheaper around here also. I just don't care anymore. It has been tight around here so far and the pay has got alot better over the past couple of weeks. I have been cutting back as much as possible while I am at it without all the outside interferance. That is what bothers some folks around here is that I have been streaching things out. For 3 weeks it was hard to meal plan for anything with the bump on the log here becuase he would eat everything up instead of asking me what was the meal for lunch and supper for the 3 weeks that he was here for. So after I got that back on track in the past almost 2 weeks that he has been out of here it has been alot easier on me also. I still havent got my one jacket back at all and will start blowing his toush in for fraud also here shortly. I just can't stand when people start abuseing the system and other folks when they offer a hand to help the person out. Now after the past 2 weeks I have had everything off for at least 10 hrs a day just to cut the power bill down and then some other things while I am at it around here. What gets to me is that some folks think that since the Hippy is a truck driver he makes alot of money. When he doesen't at all. Pluss I was asked by the bump on the log of why I was paying bills also around the can. I looked at him like you really asked that question to me and did I hear you right on it????? At that point I knew he was nothing but a lazy rotten no good person who diden't care at all. Just becuase some folks here in the state of NY do not pay thier bills and let the Welfare System do it for them, it doesen't mean that us working folk refuse to pay bills around here and streach out what is left for other items for the household. So here I sit with a quiet place and I can think and sleep once more without someone getting loud during the night over the phone or during the day for that matter. I am sure that the power bill will go down without a phone being charged up every 2 hours or so around here. Also I am feeling alot better since the T.P. is getting thrown down the cammode also instead of in the garbage pail in the bathroom. I am sorry but that is just plain lazyness and sick for folks to do that. And a whole new host of health problems to arise also with doing that. I am not being treated as the maid and the slave also anymore at all. The can is staying clean after I clean on Mondays also and doing touch ups around the place during the rest of the week. I know I was going thru alot of cleaner and other things around here to keep the place clean so I woulden't get hollared at for when the Hippy came home. Anyway I at least have my sanity back now and likeing it. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Watching Liveing with Ed

All I can do is laugh and wander how Rochelle hasen't killed Ed yet. Now I know I have a small space that I am liveing with. 700 square feet isen't much at all. Now I have got creative with storage space here in the can. I still needed a storage locker whick I hate paying for after 4 years now but have no choice. Anyway when you have bins to store the sheets in becuase you don't have room and a few other items of course then you know space is tight. I have dishes in my desk and a few other places. For the extra food storage I grabed the 2 white shelves from my Sister In Law. Betty would be happy to know that I am useing them. Sometimes I have to bang my head really really hard just to get things done here in the place. When I have it in the storage unit I will use it. Since one child wasen't pushed out of her. A leagal loop hole in PA the neighbors can clame your child if you pass away. Well After all said and done Liberty-Ann Mercer who is 18 now diden't shell out a dime for rent on squat and was a minor at the time with no relations to nobody she lost out. Oh well in my book. Becuase the Landloard if he wanted to could have got a dumpster and pitched everything also. SO I reused some and had to throw alot out with the cat urin on it. Or use Holy Water on it and watch it burst into flames. I got most of it that was good and have kept it back for the real daughter if she wants it have fun. If not I will use it. Now with me I don't mind used furniture but, will have to sanitze some of it knowing who had it. Barbaside here I come let me tell ya. Anyway to go green is fine but just dont drive the other half up the wall nor the kids if you can help it. Now with me going cheap and somewhat green I am there. I have got the Green Works products from Clorox. I have not tried the laundery deturgant yet and stressing yet. I can't wait untill I do now. The bathroom cleaner and a few others work very well so far. It doesen't bother me nor the bird at all. So now I will use the dish deturgant, the dilutable cleaner, and the bathroom cleaner. Between sales and coupons I can get them. They are a bit more in price but are well worth the price since you use so little of them. Maybe that is why I go dumpster diveing so much around here. The big corperations throw really good things out instead of reduceing the price on the item for a quick sale. If I can't use the item then it gets passed along to someone who can. I have been like that ever since I can remember. Here in the trailer park we pass stuff along also except for fans. Some of us laugh about it all. Becuase all of us are trying to save pennies as much as we all can. So we all traid on stuff and go from there. That is why I don't mind useing coupons for alot of things around here. May as well be cheap and get cheaper along the way around here. When you have good neighbors along the way may as well traid coupons and other things. As I say never hurts to traid and save as much as you can for your household. Make it a pot luck dinner even between neighbors. If one can't cook chips and dip go along way before dinner. I have learned that along time ago. Anyway now to figure out how I am gonna do some things around here and some extra thought. I may sleep on it to figure it all out. Have fun and play harder.

Realizeing why I pulled my hair out in

Well Febuary is always a tough month around here with being a truckers wife. The van failed all togeather and a few other things also. I did manage to save 10 dollars at Kmart today by filling out the card for there off of my bill. Now a friend of mine just called who is just totally broke and said that thier car repairs would be about 2 grand after all said and done. And they wandered why I was broke with the Honda all of the time. Well the van is much cheaper than what I had to repair it. So now I have about 10 days to get the van up to par for the inspection and go from there. At this point I am throwing up my hands to it all and will wait untill tomarrow to do anything around here. Now it has came down to the nity grit of why I wanted to go cheaper here and now I can. At this point I have no choice to do what I really have to do. So now I can get the coupons and start walking every where that I need to go to at this point in time and don't care about it all. It is a quick fix in away but for the long term I can get it all to stick like glue around here untill I can manage a way to get out of here. Now for the next weeks and months coming up you will see a change in how I will operate in the can and on the screan also. Even though I had a somewhat set back with the lazy bump on the log around here. I have picked myself up by the boot straps or by the sling shot straps eather way and will get the place back into shape even if it all kills me to do so. Well I have been pushing so far to get cheaper around here and just haven't done it as of yet and will start doing as of this point today at 340 pm. I am thankfull I still have enough stock in the can that I have pulled back to get started with on the very cheap side of life. Then this way I wont get stuck like a dear friend of mine did when her Husband passed on and left the poor girl broke. I refuse to let any man walk all over me like that. The Hippy just will not do it that way at all. The Hippy is as cheap if not cheaper than I am at times and I do not mind one bit at all. The both of us use what we have untill eather it is so ratty that it hurts or it is so down right falling appart and duck tape can't even bother to manage to help the item anymore. I have a saying in my place if I have to staple straps back up and on then it is still good unless I have wires sticking me and broke then it is time to get new. That is why I woulden't mind haveing my Mother In Law around me to show me how she had done it for all them years. I know that the woman is smileing down on me at this point in time and laughing at me to go cheaper around this place. When there is the will there is the way. I look at it like this meals from scratch around my place since I do not go out to eat hardly at all, then the cutting back on alot of things here also I think I have it all made. That is how I have spoiled myself altogeather around here. Why make a meal when I have leftovers in the fridge for when the Hippy is not home during the week and there is soup on top of it when I run out of the leftovers. That part will never change out of me. Also there are ways of doing in my place that have not been done before also. Now in the past several weeks here I have been getting coupons out of the paper every Sunday becuase that is when they post the coupons here in the area. So I will be cutting down that bill altogeather around here with the coupons. Or 2 bills depending on where I shop at. I have my ways of cutting down on things that woulden't mean squat to others at this point. Like not haveing the T.V. on all day along with the computer. I have been doing that for months for the most part untill the last week that the bump on the log was here and I have got back on track with that once again here. Pluss not only that I have cut at least 2 loads of laundery out also after I threw his toush out of here. With sheets and blankets I do them as needed and when I have a full load also. The blankets also don't reak of loation and bad perfume now. Niether does the can and I can clean the bathroom and other spots of the can and they are pretty much clean for 6 days a week around here. So I will be saveing money on paper towles and cleaners becuase the lazy bum is not here to mess things up right behind me now. At this point I have to really revamp the can and really look into things on a bigger picture around here then rebudget everything. I have been working on the budget for the past 2 months if not longer and will get it done. Now I have the drive toget things done around here even more and I like it. Ok folks have fun and play harder.

Finding coupons

Well since I have to get the van inspected this month I am finding coupons for the van. If I can't use them on the van myself the guys know to use what is left for the next person. The nice thing about the internet is if you have a printer hooked up to it look at Products in your household that you use. The site may have a coupon for what you are looking for. Now I know Walmart takes the internet printed coupons here Tops has refused and Wegman's told me to bring them to the sevice counter to be checked and approved for use. Now at times I can get at least 50 dollars off the grocery bill at each place eather way. Some of the cashiers have said that a couple of folks they have money going back to them from thier trip to the grocery store. Ok folks have fun and play hard. I have to clean after the mini bomb went off in the place after the weekend.

Today was not that bad

Today was much better than yesterday at least. The Hippy and I hit up the buffet for lunch today and saved about 7 dollars with the both of us. Then went over to Big Lots to shop a bit since he broke one of my hair brushes today. It was nice since I could shop around over at Big Lots today also. I was laughing also since we both hit the clerance rack at the same time. It could have been worse than the 22 dollars but, at least all of it was at rock bottom prices that I did pick up. There were also items for the truck also. I will not complain at all. Anyway I saved over 75 dollars in total without coupons today. That is why I say if you have a favorite junk/outlet store go see what they have. If you haven't been to a store simular to Big Lots or Ollies you may be suprized in what you can find in places like that. Now to get coupons for the van to go into the shop and get it inspected also this week along with the repair bill. What I will do along with the shop that I deal with they take the coupons that I give them and use the best one for me. Then the ones that I don't use they pass it along to the next person for me. It is like I don't mind doing it for other folks to save money on car repairs. I go without a car for maybe 24-72 hrs and I can walk everywhere. The shop is even within walking distance for me. That is how close I am to everything and will take rolley bags with me to go shopping with. Along with other coupons also so it is not that bad around here at all. Now for when I drop the van off I will get a cup of coffee on the way home to try to keep warm with for the walk home. It is rare that I do that but, well worth getting out of the can for at least 45 min. Pluss a chance to pick up cans for my wood burning stove when I get out of here also. One of the reasons of why I don't mind walking to get someplace also. Well now I can say also that the DOT laws for big trucks have gone complietly stupid all over the US. Pluss once the Qwelcom shuts the truck off it makes for a very dangerous situationon the road. This is why you see the 18 wheelers on the side of the High Ways and on the ramps now days. What if one gets side swiped from some drunkin or druged up idiot becuase that is how the laws are now. I see a whole lot of ticket's that are gonna be fought now. The new law is 10hrs in the sleeper and 14 hrs driveing. Well I have seen folks stop right infront of a driver like Oh They can stop on a dime even if they have 18 Wheels under them. Guess what they dont. At 35 mph it is 140 feet period. I wanted to get out and beat one woman half to death after being dumped out of the seat. Another time is when I had my ferrette I had took him to the vet in Illinois I moved to St. Louis after I made the appointment for him. I almost got the poor driver infront of me becuase the woman stoped infront of him. Thank goodness I dident have a 350 engine sitting on my lap after that. The lawsuits woulden't have ended for the elderly woman. I have seen way to much driveing the Highways and Bi ways of the countery in the past 20 years of driveing. Please what ever ya do don't stop infront of a driver at all you don't know when he is loaded with at least 35,000 lbs or more or not. I have seen mini vans holding up 53' trailers also. I do not fear the 18 wheelers at all. I still have a cb in the van with me so I can start in on the driver when need be. Or let them know get over or suffer. Ok folks have fun and play harder.

Yesterday was a bust

Well the lazy bump on the log diden't return my jacket at all. So now I start by plotting my way thru and maybe he will get the point of don't create welfare frud around here at all. That is the problem around the state of NY all togeather. The State is over a Billion dollars in debt becuase of missmanagement of tax dollars and tolls. And the Welfare system is part of the problem also. Granted some folks do not make enough to get groceries in the household at all around here. Another thing is 3/4 of the people up here can work and for the most part get off of the system almost totally. When I asked for food stamps years ago they almost denied me saying that 60+ hrs a week and 900 dollars a month was enough to pay all the bills and buy groceries with. When the next person was getting 500 dollars in food stamps, medical, section 8 or hud and cash from the system sitting on thier toush and doing nothing at all. Well after some screaming and a few other words said I ended up with about 130 dollars a month and nothing more in food stamps. I also budgeted them out and streached everything to the limit and the case worker coulden't believe that someone could do it. I still streach out everything to this day. It is out of habit and not knowing with todays world if the people in my place can eat tomarrow also depending on the job or jobs. At this point in time yes I get repetitive and repeat myself becuase that is how some learn like myself. When I did start most of my habbits of streaching things out around my can I almost gave up while I was ahead. Some of the things that I started doing Just diden't work at all for me. Others have stuck around. Now for some it is like second nature to me and I tend to freak out in my own place when people keep things pluged in when not in use at all and draw power that is not waranted here. Last week was a very good week for me since I got to turn off everything here in the can. Since I started throwing people out of course. Now I told the Hippy that I did get my gift for today the place that is empty during the week except me and I like it. Pluss I kinda splurged and had to get a few things that were needed. I got teased about it around here also. Even in what I got for myeslf it will fall apart or break withing 3 years with me. I will streach everything out totally. With the sofa and love seat they are shot in most folks eyes. Not to me just yet. When the recliners won't go back down and stay then they are shot in my eyes. I will cover them up untill that time more than likely. Well unlike what my supposad nice told me last year to this day infact. That I was nothing but Trailer Trash and deal with it all. She was the Welfare scam from the get go anyway. At age 15 the child tried to tell me I needed new furnature in my place. I laughed at her and said go get a paper route to pay for it and other wise deal with what I have. Just becuase something is ratty doesent mean to get arid of it at all. If I did that I woulden't have anything in the can. Nor would I have the can. So there are some things I will not get arid of at all. That is me. That is what I mean of streach out the dollars and make sure that it will hold up from the abuse if need be with any purchase for the household. Granted some things will not hold up in a household. Like cheap pots and pans. I bought the Ultrex2 collection about 10 years ago. They are still holding up around here without a problem. Yes I have had to add some other brands of pots and pans becuase I can't get the ultrex anymore. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Getting some work done

Well I pulled out dinner for tonight at least. Pluss 2 loads of laundery also has beed done. So I figured to get to chopping onions in the food processor some for tonight then extra for later use in the week. It could be worse around here to say the least. I do not mind cooking at all for the place. Most of what I am cooking for today is off the knock off brands from the stores. There are times to get the knock off brands and there are times where there isen't. Sometimes the knock off brands are more expencive than the name brand foods. This is why I say look and compaire prices all of the time. Look at the tags in the stores for the ppp= price per pound. Now is the time I wish my Mother In Law was still here in person to kick me when possible and start teaching me in how she did everything. Even though I can hold my own thru the grocery stores and other places. Anyway at least food is in my place and the bills are paid. Pluss with so many on the unemployment lines today it pays to be cheaper in the kitchen and a few other places in the household. I was asked the other day in how I do it all around here. Well I do work when I can out of the can and in the can. Otherwise I am a housewife per say also. When I am out of a job or the Hippy is out I do not go after the cup of coffee out and cut back as much as possible around here. Now while I was at the store on Sunday one of the people that have been unenplyed lately I seen his wife get a cup of coffee in Tim Hortans. I would have cut that to where I could still shop and save money while I was at the store also. Then again they guys wife just doesen't think on things anyway since she is supposadly "High Class" to some of us that streach out our dollars in the household. When I started out of being totally cheap again I started wrighting things down on what I spent in the household and cut down the fat in the place where I could. The woman if you want to call her that doesen't walk to the stores nor to the bank it would be benieth her all togeather. What I would do in the winter if the honda was down when I had the honda I would walk to the bank and get a Large coffee for the walk back becuase I was cold on the walk back. I could not afford a cab at all at the time. And the coffee out was a treat to me anyway. If I go around totally getting radical on things to cut back on that nobody will like me at all in or out of the can. IF it was up to me I would be hanging laundery even in the winter and alot of other things. I still have enough hangers and a few other things here in the can. The outside lines never come down unless one breaks while I am hanging laundery. The same guy as mentioned he gets excited when I start in on something new around my place and wants to share what I have done with his wife and she sticks her nose up at me like I am worth nothing to her. When I am holding up Thier Children in a Funeral Home I see that I am more of a Parent to the children than thier Mother is. When the person who passed on has been there since before dipars and then some. Along with me, the Girls would be just crushed if something were to happen to me. As I call them My Girls becuase, I got them stuff from yard sales and garage sales and they loved it. I still like to go to yard sales and grage sales to this day and other friends coulden't believe all the steals and deals that I ended up with during the day of our outing. When I can get stuff used and discounted at rock bottom prices that still works I will use it untill it quits around here. Or so tatered that they wish I would get arid of it at all costs. Why get new when the old or used works just the same in my place. There are some people that it just bothers and I don't care. They do not live here and passed up liveing here all togeather becuase I am hard on teen's in a way, only becuase, I know what I did when i was 14 - 18 years of age. I was married at 16 and divorced at 18. Need I say more. Ok folks have fun and play harder.

Laughing already

I had to laugh this morning when the Hippy asked me if we had store bought bread in the house. He likes it better for the truck. Well while he had went out already and since the Hippy would be out I told him to go over to the regular supermarket for me to pick some things up that I have forgot about. Should be under 10 dollars today for the stuff that I need for several dinners around here. The Hippy forgets that it is cheaper around here in the regular markets instead of going into the truck stops that he normally goes into. That is why I try to stock up on stuff that are in cans that he can cook on the engine of the big truck. I can find stuff that is cheaper at Walmart and between Wegman's and Tops also. The Truck Stops want 3 times than where I shop at since they know you are pretty much stuck in alot of ways. I diden't mind going at one point with him at all becuase, there were times where there was a store within walking distance of where he was loading or unloading at times. The Uni Leaver loads I dident mind niether. I could always hit thier dumpster out back for products that they coulden't sell becuase the box was crushed or a leaky bottle. You get real good at diveing for good stuff in the dumpsters after awhile. Just to save some money in the household. Also when a store has a shoppers card Get one. You get the sale items pluss you get double coupons off the cards depending on where you are at also. Another perk of the cards are the store sends out coupons for thier store also. I have been known to use 50 dollars at a time in coupons also. With the coupons in the blinky machines you can use an out of store coupon also. Now with the coupons there is a trick to it all and you have to read the print on the coupons also. Lets say there is a buy one get one free deal at the grocery store, the coupons says buy one get a dollar off. You can use 2 coupons when they say that becuase you are buying 2 even though you are getting one free. There are lots of things you can do with coupons. As I say it is a huge game at the stores. With the grocery store they set a price for the items and sales at times of the year to rope folks in. Some folks don't care if they pay full price for an item. I have coupons at all times with me in the luggage that I carry. Now what I will do is pull the coupons for the sale adds and carry the extra coupons for the sales that are not in the adds that come out. Now with myself in what I do is I get the meats and try to build meals around that. So lets say I have 6 packs of chicken in the cart I build the coupons with the sale items around the chicken. Then this way there is a hodge podge of extra side dishes in the cart from the coupons. You will never get board of eatting the same things over and over again. As I have said before I have some basics in my place at all times. Onions, garlic, flour, yeast, eggs, and bakeing powder. There is the basics for the most part in my place that I can build alot from there. I also keep raw potatoes, powdered milk and margerine/butter. The Hippy just shakes his head and lets me loose in the kitchen. I know the look when I have cooked to much of the chicken. He looks at me funny and starts flapping his arms and we both start laughing about it. So the next day I start cooking something else. Now I have heard some folks complain about coupon use for thier household. If you buy enough meats there are several ways to have side dishes also. All I am saying is mix it up at all times. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Sitting around on a friday night

Well there is not much to do on a Friday night around here except watch the buff babies and go from there. I got to laughing with a dear friend of mine tonight also. She asked a quarter is a quarter and not worth takeing in the coupons niether for it all. I dang near fell out of my chair. Well quarters add up in my book with coupons in my can. Pluss now I know why she hasen't been over also. Untill I told ehr I went on the rampage of throwing bums out of my place and it was safe to come over once again. Well I knew it was becuase she diden't wanna be hit on anyway and the stupid bum would have. The lazy bum even hit on me for something else and that was the last straw with me and I stewed in it for about 15 hrs that day. The dishes were an under statement with the cold water and no soap to wash them. Would I say something to the Hippy not yet. I will lay out the lazy bum that I threw out before it is all over. When I here I diden't do anything wrong once more I am really blowing up around here.

Another wait time

Well I shoulden't complain on waiting at all. It gives me some more time to plan out dinners for the weekend at least. I am watching the food network also while I am at it all. I have everyone praticly beat up with cooking on a budget in my place. Well it is eather the food network or another one of The Housewives of Orange County. Most of the gals on there are fake anyway except the one who left and the one that is really broke and still makeing it with her boyfriend. Well between everything I really don't spend around here at all. I use coupons and get the sales. The bargin rack is my bestfriend half the time when I can get something for 90% off even. I never have known what it is to have money that I can go out and just say if I loose 200 dollars then that's fine. I have had to watch every nickle and dime that is coming in and out of the place around here. Some folks do not understand when they keep the fantom power going in my place it could cost me at least a 200 dollar power bill by the end of the month also instead of 80 dollars. So yes I am gonna unplug everything that I can in the can to save on that bill. For the gas bill that is a differant story around here. It will be 150 a month untill the summer hits then it goes down to about 20 dollars a month. It doesen't matter what I do during the day or night both bills will be up or a huge vet bill for the bird, cat, and dog. I do not run space heaters at all unless the furnace goes out all togeather or we haven't started the furnace for the year yet. Then I will be sleeping on the couch when the furnace goes out for that long also. This is why I have alot of the rooms blocked up. It goes with the territory let me tell you. Now I am just happy that I hid most of the batteries in the place also while I was at it. The bump in the can would not throw out the old used up batteries at all. I found out this when I went to use my cd player and a camera. Well since I do not run the T.V. nor the computer during the day I use batteries for a radio or cd's. All the Double A's were shot that were out of my desk. Except the ones that I hid in my desk when I cleaned out the old desk. Well that is why I say no more people are gonna stay with me. When I can say that I can cook from scratch and really get the food budget down to about 7 dollars a day for 3 people in the household and when the 3rd person turns up thier nose for good cooking on the cheap and would rather have the deep frier going then it is time for the person to eather start helping or theres the door one. And I politely tossed the person out. And the person is still lucky I diden't shoot first then tell him to get out once I think about it all. Oh well have fun and play harder.